Diverting Children from a Life of Crime: Measuring Costs and Benefits

Diverting Children from a Life of Crime: Measuring Costs and Benefits
ISBN-10
0833026232
ISBN-13
9780833026231
Category
Social Science
Pages
69
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Rand Corporation
Authors
Peter W. Greenwood, University of California, Berkeley

Description

This groundbreaking work examines four early-intervention approaches: home visits by child care professionals to provide guidance in infant and child care; parent training and therapy for families with primary-school-age children who have shown aggressive behavior; cash and other incentives to induce disadvantaged high school students to graduate; and monitoring and supervising high-school-age youth who have already exhibited delinquent behavior. The authors compare the costs and effectiveness of each program and show how some intervention strategies could reduce crime by up to 15 percent.

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